From 967b414293033e25d2a929f838fd610784786ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Branyen <tim@tabdeveloper.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:25:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add Repo.openIndex

---
 generate/descriptor.json | 4 ++++
 lib/repository.js        | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/generate/descriptor.json b/generate/descriptor.json
index df0b39ef4..7521fc718 100644
--- a/generate/descriptor.json
+++ b/generate/descriptor.json
@@ -528,6 +528,10 @@
         "ignore": false
       },
 
+      "git_repository_index": {
+        "ignore": false
+      },
+
       "git_repository_init": {
         "isConstructorMethod": true,
         "ignore": false
diff --git a/lib/repository.js b/lib/repository.js
index c84c39164..af789986c 100644
--- a/lib/repository.js
+++ b/lib/repository.js
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ var Commit = require("./commit");
 var TreeBuilder = NodeGit.Treebuilder;
 var Repository = NodeGit.Repository;
 
+Object.defineProperty(Repository.prototype, "openIndex", {
+  enumerable: false,
+  value: Repository.prototype.index
+});
+
 /**
  * Look up a branch"s most recent commit.
  *

From d5e1a030929fbd8a725e0aef2f2bd0d60f80e4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Branyen <tim@tabdeveloper.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:29:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Added a backing unit test

---
 test/tests/repository.js | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/tests/repository.js b/test/tests/repository.js
index 67d8c1f0d..f6111ac39 100644
--- a/test/tests/repository.js
+++ b/test/tests/repository.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ describe("Repository", function() {
   var newRepo = path.resolve("test/repos/newrepo");
 
   var Repository = require("../../lib/repository");
+  var Index = require("../../lib/index");
 
   before(function() {
     var test = this;
@@ -38,4 +39,10 @@ describe("Repository", function() {
       return Repository.open(newRepo);
     });
   });
+
+  it("can read the index", function() {
+    return this.repository.index().then(function(index) {
+      assert.ok(index instanceof Index);
+    });
+  });
 });